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Is he dead or alive?

I just picked up the Crimson Slaughter supplement and it goes on to say that the Crimson Slaughter participate din the 13th Black Crusade, and makes no mention of Kranon's death. Admittedly I haven't read the entire thing yet, but couldn't find anything about him dying in the timeline pages.

I also read somewhere that his death was just a premonition by a Dark Angel librarian, and it has not yet passed.

So what exactly is the deal with Kranon? Is he dead or alive?

They've retconned it so he's only prophesized to get beheaded by that Librarian.

Given that codexes are supposed to make their faction look bad-ass, I can only assume they realized a supplement where the most important character was decapitated was kinda embarassing.

But it would fit Chaos' MO of being SM-1.

Kranon is alive. The Librarian Turmiel foresaw his death at the hands of Company Master Balthasar at the end of the Dark Vengeance novella, but it's not something that actually happened yet.